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Keith Gessen Quotes

I no longer remember when I started speaking to Raffi in Russian. I didn't speak to him in Russian when he was in his mother's womb, though I've since learned that this is when babies first start recognizing sound patterns.

Keith Gessen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 9, 1975

Topics

Mother Start Speak Remember First

As time went on, Thanos just sort of grew organically on his own.

Jim Starlin

Time Own Just His Sort Grew

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

John Bolton

Fight War Politicians Last Generals

I knew Snoop Dog didn't start misogyny. I knew that Tupac Shakur didn't start sexism, and God knows that Dr. Dre didn't start patriarchy. Yet they extended it in vicious form within their own communities. They made vulnerable people more vulnerable.

Michael Eric Dyson

Dog God People Start More Within

There is no secure data center in the world; they have all been broken into. We can help you prepare for it and minimize the damage when it does occur.

John T. Chambers

Broken World Data Help You Prepare

I'm a tech-head. I've been a tech-head since '84, man.

Sinbad

Man Been Since

Once school let out every year, my siblings and I would get packed into a station wagon to drive to South Carolina to see my grandparents for summer vacation. If school let out on Friday, we were probably in the station wagon no later than Sunday morning, and we would make stops along the way.

Tony Rock

Morning Vacation School Drive Friday

My alter egos have changed a lot over the years. When I was a child, I was a black horse called Storm. Whinnying and jumping over bamboo poles in the garden took up pretty much my entire childhood.

Romola Garai

Childhood Storm Child Black Horse

Before redeye flights, I drink copious amounts of herbal brews to help me relax and fall asleep after takeoff.

Ruzwana Bashir

Me Relax Help Fall Drink Before

I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.

Matt Bellamy

Life Freedom Together Singing Start

I actually made an effort to reject acting, to shove it out of my body, because I didn't want my kids to have an actress as a mother-to have, like, a silly person.

Lisa Kudrow

Effort Silly Body Acting Person Out

I don't do much rewriting, because each paragraph is very carefully put together.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Together Because Paragraph Much Very

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Courteney Cox

Person Become Question Going Deny